> and "yum update" is off and running. when it's done, i still have > 400M available in /usr, so i remove the exclude statement, run > "yum update" and everything works. when that's done, i still have > 405M of /usr to spare and a fully-updated system. > > the moral of the story? that "out of space" warning certainly has > the potential to bite people who don't know about it and have a lot > of pending updates. Do you know what happens if you REALLY run out of space during a transaction? Your system breaks, badly, potentially irrevocably. This is why I pay attention to the disk space check response from rpm. You can CHOOSE to disable it if you'd like. -sv
